This seems to be referencing Regulation (EU) 654/2014, an EU law which allows the EU to unilaterally enact countermeasures against countries that break the WTO's rules.

The countermeasures listed in article 5 are:

• Imposing tarriffs and customs duties
• Trade restrictions/quotas
• Cancelling contracts between the EU and the target country
• Cancelling the target country's intellectual property rights (e.g. patents/copyrights)
• Banning public procurement from the target country
• Implementing price penalties for public procurement from the target country

The law was amended in Regulation (EU) 2021/167 in response to the Trump (and now Biden) administrations blocking the appointment of judges to the WTO and using a loophole to kill the WTO's enforcement mechanism.

More context from the EU parliament:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2020/652021/EPRS_BRI(2020)652021_EN.pdf

The fact that the EU can just suspend American patents and copyrights is pretty insane. Could be some huge benefits for European companies and movie pirates.

Insane that Github blocked their entire development without discussing it with them though. Ban the contributor, not the entire open source project.

Isn't this espionage/treason? He has security clearance, he should not have contact with foreign government officials or sabotage our allies.

obligatory technology connections comment

This is less of a "iPhones are more secure" thing and more "Google play is banned in China" thing.

Apple willingly extinguishes freedom of speech to protect app store profits:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/3/23901205/apple-app-store-government-license-china

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/19/tech/china-apple-whatspp-threads-removal-hnk-intl/index.html

How about they don't? Open-source Linux, with contributions from gaming companies like valve, will always better for the consumer than a proprietary OS like Windows, that is designed by committee to show the most ads.

Linux is the new gaming os, Microsoft had too many Windows 8 moments.

Exactly this. You can claim that their scraping is abusing your servers, but the moment you claim copyright for the content of the site, then you give up your Section 230 rights.

Plugging into a random usb port is bad security

The correct name is concentration camp. it is very important that people understand that this is a concentration camp.

The term "concentration camp" and "internment camp" are used to refer to a variety of systems that greatly differ in their severity, mortality rate, and architecture; their defining characteristic is that inmates are held outside the rule of law.[2] Extermination camps or death camps, whose primary purpose is killing, are also imprecisely referred to as "concentration camps".[3]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp

the new death camps outside of Germany's prewar borders could be kept secret from the German civil populace.[40]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp

The fact that this camp is being set up outside the jurisdiction of the rule of law makes it a concentration camp and makes it 100x worse than any other immigration prison

This is really frustrating. This is the only thing holding Linux gaming back for me, as someone who games with a AMD GPU and an OLED TV. On Windows 4k120 works fine, but on Linux I can only get 4k60. I've been trying to use an adapter, but it crashes a lot.

AMD seemed to be really trying to bring this feature to Linux, too. Really tragic that they were trying to support us, and some anti-open source goons shot them down.

This is worse than you think. Most countries don't criminalize use, only possession. Criminalizing use like Sweden does likely means that even having cannabis in your system is illegal and could lead to fines, criminal record, and jail time. It's insanely backwards.

These are huge upgrades over the old trucks. The proportions are sized to fit the features they need, like fast, ergonomic access to the back, and better visibility than any other car on the road.

Good on them for designing a good vehicle instead of letting some sports car fanatic dictate a concept car idea.

Taking courage in your design will win over the car fanatics in 5 or so years when the next design trend starts, and the reliability and function will mean that these will keep looking good 30 years from now.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier

I dont use iOS, but are people seriously injecting AI in between them and their loved ones?

When have Comcast, Disney, or IBM ever have been on the wrong side of history? /s

Jellyfin has much better Syncplay than plex

release announcement:

https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/

This small circle is the sun, absolutely dwarfed by the earth taking up the rest of the frame. Definitely unsettling.

Somebody could shoot Trump on 5th Avenue and nobody important would care.

The fact that random companies like Crowdstrike have kernel drivers in millions of computers they they ship remotely is a security risk in and of itself. We're lucky crowdstrike just shipped a bug that crashes computers, other companies could have shipped a lot worse.

Biden's FCC has been killing it, really nice to see them crack down on data caps with this and the standardized billing info